Cooking for one (Mark Three)

caronc

No need to look away microwave rissotto works really well.
Sounds as though your courgettes aren't getting pollinated so could worth getting a cotton bud or similiar and giving the boys & girls a "tickle" with it:rotfl:
"Home Ec" looking back was pretty decent looking back on it very much based on the the "Glasgow Cookery" book model but I hated the sewing/home craft classes though I did learn how to starch a collar using diluted cornflour:eek: though a skill given my hate of all things ironing-related I never actually used :rotfl:

There was a quick change of plan dinner wise and I cooked some pasta & had it with the remaining roasted veg & some parmesan.

Brambling

Thanks Caronc it could because I only have one plant this year and I normally get given two if I don't do my own. I'll get busy tomorrow :rotfl:

I too remember being taught how to iron a mans shirt :cool: and change a electric plug I changed more plugs than iron and starched shirts :rotfl: I did learn to use a sewing machine which was useful, but my clothes have always looked home made so I gave up, I do run up a good pair of curtains and was the kind auntie for all things sewing for my nephews, sometimes an invitation to tea involved hemming trousers or once I was asked to make a Robin Hood hat, my sister had brought some material for me :cool:

Are you telling me Caronc that as a women you weren't born with the ironing gene :rotfl: I lost mine as well

caronc

Nope didn't inherit the ironing gene at all my Mum hated ironing too, though like me she was very pernickety about ironing so maybe that's why, as I find "proper" ironing takes ages. I do wish I didn't like linen & cotton clothes so much in the summer which just don't do so well with shake & fold. I could get a gold medal for my shaking & folding skills

Brambling

My mum ironed everything including tea towels even with a large family once we reached teenagers we were given it as a job, could be why I hate it how :think: my two eldest sisters still talk of getting told off for not ironing apron strings and they're both in their 70s now. It may have been a generation thing as one of my sisters caught her MIL ironing her tights :eek:

I too curse linen trousers which I like to wear for work in summer

bouicca21

We all had lessons in woodwork, metal work, sewing and home economics girls and boys until we made our O Level selections at 14

Oh you were so lucky. DDs also did more or less everything except sewing, and whilst the cookery lessons were pretty rubbish, the ability to do the other stuff has been really useful. I think both of them just took it for granted that people cooked and all that making cakes an biscuits together somehow naturally translated into roasts and casseroles.

Me I just did cookery and sewing for a year,no chance of doing anything more interesting. I remember lessons on how to iron a tea towel and shirts . One of the nice things about the demise of nylon and a preference for cotton/linen is that it doesn't matter if they are badly ironed, or not ironed at all, because the creases shout 'natural fabrics'.

moneyistooshorttomention

I'll say that that explains my aversion to ironing then - never taught it at school:rotfl:

So I do iron well - but only what I feel needs it. So I iron all "outer" clothing and that's it. I don't do towels, teatowels, sheets and pillowcases.

Ahem...I used to figure that a boyfriend would never notice what state sheets and pillowcases were in (as long as they were clean) earlier in my life. These days - when it's been just me for years now - I'm not going to tell myself off about not doing them:rotfl:

caronc

Good morning everyone,

Completely understand your "Executive Function" issues PN - not so different to vestibular disruption especially when trying to explain it to people though thankfully I can still cope with change/decision making! One explanation I was given was to liken it to joining the dots. All the dots are there but my brain for some reason can't join them up in a way that bypasses the faulty bit!:cool:

It's warm & trying to be sunny here this morning.:)
After last night's convesation re ironing, I should really be tackling some as the pile is growing daily. However, I'm still wonky and hate sitting down to iron even more than I do standing so it will wait for another [STRIKE]week [/STRIKE] day or so;).
My big challenge for today is to go to the library as I'm running out of books and I must have something read or I would go (completely) nuts. If it comes to it I'll charge up the kindle but I like to read outdoors and find it hard to see the screen if it's sunny. I've some domestic bits I want to get out of the way first and I'll then see how it goes.
Usual toast for breakfast with the remaining tomatoes from the greenhouse, lunch will be a repeat of yesterday of scotch egg, salad and coleslaw. I'm not sure about tonight yet.

Wednesday2000

Mmm, I just had some Abel & Cole fresh bread slathered with marg! Delicious!

caronc wrote: »

Wednesday - same here I like to have my windows and doors open in good weather. I benefit from the front of my house being north facing so it's always cooler than the back. It's less of an advantage in the winter though...

Yes, I have the same thing here. Maybe I should sleep in the kitchen at night as it must be the coolest room in the house.:D

I did have to leave the windows open last night, I thought I would rather be bitten than be that hot!

caronc

Wednesday2000 wrote: »

Mmm, I just had some Abel & Cole fresh bread slathered with marg! Delicious!



Yes, I have the same thing here. Maybe I should sleep in the kitchen at night as it must be the coolest room in the house.:D

I did have to leave the windows open last night, I thought I would rather be bitten than be that hot!

I'm the opposite - my kitchen is the warmest room. Thankfully my bedroom remains reseanobly cool so I don't need to contemplate "camping" in other rooms.:)

Farway

'morning all

Another scorcher, I just couldn't sleep last night, too hot. In the end I dropped off.
Weird dream, for those who analyse such thing, I was cycling round Portsmouth with a young French couple, looking for the Pickled Onion Factory.:rotfl:

Breakfast was overnight nuked porridge, HM red currant gloop, honey & HM yoghurt

Had to get an early start, my windscreen washers packed up, and MOT next week:(.
The actual pump is under the front wing on the driver's side, so no chance of me getting under there.
Turned out it was the fuse had been knocked out of contacts when the glow plugs were changed in the week. Now re- seated properly, poor design, easy to knock the fuse when replacing the cover, did it myself so can't really moan at the garage

Spotted loads of ripe blackberries near my garage, instant decision, pick them, although wild they are plump & sweet. Another of my Guerrilla Gardening plantings;)

Picked up just over 1Kg of my windfall apples, added more blackberries growing over the shed, over 500g of blackberries total

Stewed the blackberries & the apples, crumble will be made later this afternoon, I found a tin of evaporated milk that I bought for a long forgotten cunning plan,.
A 1950s pud today folks:j

Lunch, think it's going to be BF ham & salad sandwich
Dinner ????